Observation of B -> K-+/-pi(0) and B -> K-0 pi(0) and evidence for B ->pi(+)pi(-)

Authors
Cronin-Hennessy, D Kwon, Y Lyon, AL Thorndike, EH Jessop, CP Marsiske, H Perl, ML Savinov, V Ugolini, D Zhou, X Coan, TE Fadeyev, V Maravin, Y Narsky, I Stroynowski, R Ye, J Wlodek, T Artuso, M Ayad, R Boulahouache, C Bukin, K Dambasuren, E Karamnov, S Kopp, S Majumder, G Moneti, GC Mountain, R Schuh, S Skwarnicki, T Stone, S Viehhauser, G Wang, JC Wolf, A Wu, J Csorna, SE Danko, I McLean, KW Marka, S Xu, Z Godang, R Kinoshita, K Lai, IC Schrenk, S Bonvicini, G Cinabro, D Perera, LP Zhou, GJ Eigen, G Lipeles, E Schmidtler, M Shapiro, A Sun, WM Weinstein, AJ Wurthwein, F Jaffe, DE Masek, G Paar, HP Potter, EM Prell, S Sharma, V Asner, DM Eppich, A Gronberg, J Hill, TS Lange, DJ Morrison, RJ Nelson, HN Briere, RA Behrens, BH Ford, WT Gritsan, A Roy, J Smith, JG Alexander, JP Baker, R Bebek, C Berger, BE Berkelman, K Blanc, F Boisvert, V Cassel, DG Dickson, M Drell, PS Ecklund, KM Ehrlich, R Foland, AD Gaidarev, P Gibbons, L Gittelman, B Gray, SW Hartill, DL Heltsley, BK Hopman, PI Jones, CD Kreinick, DL Lohner, M Magerkurth, A Meyer, TO Mistry, NB Ng, CR Nordberg, E Patterson, JR Peterson, D Riley, D Thayer, JG Thies, PG Valant-Spaight, B Warburton, A Avery, P Prescott, C Rubiera, AI Yelton, J Zheng, J Brandenburg, G Ershov, A Gao, YS Kim, DYJ Wilson, R Browder, TE Li, Y Rodriguez, JL Yamamoto, H Bergfeld, T Eisenstein, BI Ernst, J Gladding, GE Gollin, GD Hans, RM Johnson, E Karliner, I Marsh, MA Palmer, M Plager, C Sedlack, C Selen, M Thaler, JJ Williams, J Edwards, KW Janicek, R Patel, PM Sadoff, AJ Ammar, R Bean, A Besson, D Davis, R Kravchenko, I Kwak, N Zhao, X Anderson, S Frolov, VV Kubota, Y Lee, SJ Mahapatra, R O'Neill, JJ Poling, R Riehle, T Smith, A Urheim, J Ahmed, S Alam, MS Athar, SB Jian, L Ling, L Mahmood, AH Saleem, M Timm, S Wappler, F Anastassov, A Duboscq, JE Gan, KK Gwon, C Hart, T Honscheid, K Hufnagel, D Kagan, H Kass, R Lorenc, J Pedlar, TK Schwarthoff, H von Toerne, E Zoeller, MM Richichi, SJ Severini, H Skubic, P Undrus, A Chen, S Fast, J Hinson, JW Lee, J Menon, N Miller, DH Shibata, EI Shipsey, IPJ Pavlunin, V
Citation
D. Cronin-hennessy et al., Observation of B -> K-+/-pi(0) and B -> K-0 pi(0) and evidence for B ->pi(+)pi(-), PHYS REV L, 85(3), 2000, pp. 515-519
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
85
Issue
3
Year of publication
2000
Pages
515 - 519
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(20000717)85:3<515:OOB-KA>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
We have studied charmless hadronic decays of B mesons into two-body final s tates with kaons and pions and observe three new processes with the followi ng branching fractions: B(B --> pi(+)pi(-)) = (4.3(-1.4)(+1.6) +/- 0.5) X 1 0(-6), B(B --> K(0)pi(0)) = (14.6(-5.1)(-3.3)(+5.9)(+2.1)) X 10(-6), and B( B --> K(+/-)pi(0)) = (11.6(-2.7)(-1.3)(+3.0)(+1.4)) X 10(-6). We also updat e our previous measurements for the decays B --> K(+/-)pi(+/-) and B+/- --> K(0)pi(+/-).